Insecurity: Use traditional powers to checkmate bandits, kidnappers

Traditional powers, known in local parlance as “African Juju’, has the potency of ending the current spate of kidnappings and other crimes in the country, the Owa Ooye of Okemesi-Ekiti, Gbadebo Adedeji, has said.

The monarch made this known in Okemesi-Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government Area of Ekiti, at a news briefing preceding the grand finale of the 2021 biennial Okemesi Cultural Festival, slated for Saturday, May 8.

Mr Adedeji, a former Chairman of Ekiti Council of Obas, said it would therefore be wrong and erroneous for the people to abandon their…